My choice in this book was made due to my brother, Marc, who had read it and then recommended it to me; however, I did not read it for another couple of months after that.
Fantasy fits the genre of this book very snuggly. I believe this story is fantasy because it talks about magic and Egyptian gods and Invisible houses and monsters. It fits the genre fantasy perfectly but also includes historical facts like how the Rosetta Stone looks and how the Egyptians believed in the way the gods were to fight all the time in the same way and the same sequence. Fantasy is the genre in which magic and unnatural phenomena occur. The magic in this book is very well used, and the form it takes is in the hieroglyphics and the gods coming out and fighting with each other is the phenomenon that takes place.
Carter and Sadie Kane are 2 siblings who were separated at age six after their mother dies trying to start something to change the history of the gods. Sadie and Carter learn many things that they didn't know about themselves or their ancestry such as how they have the strongest blood of pharaohs in 3000 years and how their father and mother were both magicians. They go to the British Museum, the museum that holds the Rosetta Stone. Their father makes it explode, releasing the five major gods:Set, Osiris, Nephthys, Horus and Iris, all at once. Osiris' spirit goes into the father, Horus goes into Carter, and Iris goes into Sadie. Set and Nephthys go into other hosts that would spoil the story. Set tries to wreak havoc over North America by creating a storm like the one that created the Sahara Desert. Once the two learn to harness the power of the god inside of them, they become very powerful and they can change the way that history go: with Set always losing and then coming back out and fighting Horus and Iris. Instead,Carter and Sadie's mother started to change history so that they could actually defeat Apophis, the main god of chaos and rival of Ra, and return Ma'at to balance.
Carter, who travels around the world with his father, and his sister Sadie, who lives with her grandparents in England, are from the same blood but don’t look very similar. Carter looks more like his father than Sadie, and Sadie, more like her mother than Carter making an early impression on other characters. Their mom, Ruby, has died but still plays a powerful role in the story. Carter and Sadie are the children of a famous Egyptologist, Julius, and his wife, Ruby, an architect. Carter and Sadie are blood of the Pharaohs and are some of the strongest offspring of the pharaohs in millennia. When they and their father go to the British Museum, their father blows up the Rosetta Stone and unleashes five of the most powerful Egyptian gods, Horus, Iris, Nephthys, Osiris, and Set. Carter describes Sadie by saying,"You would never believe she's my sister. First of all, she'd been living in England so long, she has a British accent. Second, she takes after our mom, who was white, so Sadie's skin is much lighter than mine. She has straight caramel-colored hair, not exactly blonde but not brown, which she usually dyes with streaks of bright colors. That day it red streaks down the left side. Her eyes are blue... just like our mom's. She's only twelve, but she's exactly as tall as me, which is really annoying"(p.7). This physical description of Sadie helps the reader put an image and sound into their head to help visualize what they were saying and how they said it. Carter, described by Sadie, leaves this impression: "Carter looked awful - I mean even worse than usual. Honestly, the boy had never even been in a proper school, and he dressed like a junior professor, with his khaki trousers and a button-down shirt and loafers. He's not bad-looking, I suppose. He's reasonably tall and fit and his hair isn't hopeless. He's got Dad's eyes, and my mates, Liz and Emma, have even told me from his picture that he's hot," (p. 39) this example shows how Sadie looks at Carter and how he looks physically. The third, and one of the most important characters, is their mother, Ruby. She is never physically in the story; however, she plays a very important part in how it plays out. "You have the best chance at relearning the old ways, and healing the breach between magicians and gods. Your mother began the stirring. I [Sadie's and Carter's Dad, Julius] unleashed the gods from the Rosetta Stone. But it will be your job to restore Ma'at."(p. 472) this is how Ruby set the stage for her children to restore the balance and harmony of Chaos and Order. Ma'at. She unleashes Bast, the cat goddess that protects Sadie, who is given as a going-away gift from Julius to Sadie. These characters all played essential parts in the plot.
Family unity and Trust are thoughts carried through the book.An example of family is repeated multiple times saying that Sadie and Carter "have the strongest blood of any Kane in three thousand years." This was because the Kane and Faust families, both of direct decent of the pharaohs, were combined together through Julius Kane and Ruby Faust into their children. Trust was a big idea in this book because they had to trust their uncle Amos, whom they have never seen before, Desjardins, Head of the House, and Zia, a girl who shows Carter and Sadie around the House and protects them.
Per Ankh: House of Life "'That's it!' Sadie exclaimed. 'Per Ankh'" Curator: A manager of a museum. "They locked me in the curator's office forages." Anthropologist: A person who studies human origin. "Mom was an anthropologist looking for ancient DNA." (p. 12) Indignant: The feeling of distaste towards something. “If coats could look indignant, this one did." (p. 426) Divine: godlike or of a god "You're trying to fight Set with divine magic." (p.375)
This picture shows the five gods, Horus, the manifestation of the Pharaoh, Isis, the goddess of magic and nature, Set, the god of Chaos, Nephthys, the god of rivers, and Osiris, god of the underworld, revolving around Ra, the sun god. They are also in the Rosetta Stone, which is where Julius Kane released them from in the British Museum. He was only supposed to release Osiris,but all, with the exception of Ra, escaped from, into bodies or other significant relics. Horus is shown as the Eye of Horus in the top left part of the Rosetta Stone. Isis is the angel-like symbol in the top right, Set is the storm cloud in the right of the stone, Nephthys is the flowing river in the lower part of the circle of gods, and Osiris is depicted as the spine of Osiris at the very left of the stone. Ra is the Eye in the sun in the center of all the other gods. These symbols are significant in this book because they resemble the plot by signifying the Egyptian gods' part of the story and the history of Egyptian belief.
This book reminds me of the book "Flipped”,where the characters would tell the story from their own point of view, which is what Rick Riordan does here except that this was more disguised as a voice recording. In the book "Flipped", theyexchange storytelling except it’s written, not so much told. As far as story line goes, the series and books most like "The Red Pyramid" are other books written by Rick Riordan,like the "Heroes of Olympus" and "Percy Jackson". These are books about the Greek gods and how chosen children like Percy Jackson or Carter and Sadie Kane are sent on a mission to save their father or save the world. Overall, they are just retold in different settings with different settings.
link to Goodreads review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/428793032
Author: Rick Riordan
My choice in this book was made due to my brother, Marc, who had read it and then recommended it to me; however, I did not read it for another couple of months after that.
Fantasy fits the genre of this book very snuggly. I believe this story is fantasy because it talks about magic and Egyptian gods and Invisible houses and monsters. It fits the genre fantasy perfectly but also includes historical facts like how the Rosetta Stone looks and how the Egyptians believed in the way the gods were to fight all the time in the same way and the same sequence. Fantasy is the genre in which magic and unnatural phenomena occur. The magic in this book is very well used, and the form it takes is in the hieroglyphics and the gods coming out and fighting with each other is the phenomenon that takes place.
Carter and Sadie Kane are 2 siblings who were separated at age six after their mother dies trying to start something to change the history of the gods. Sadie and Carter learn many things that they didn't know about themselves or their ancestry such as how they have the strongest blood of pharaohs in 3000 years and how their father and mother were both magicians. They go to the British Museum, the museum that holds the Rosetta Stone. Their father makes it explode, releasing the five major gods:Set, Osiris, Nephthys, Horus and Iris, all at once. Osiris' spirit goes into the father, Horus goes into Carter, and Iris goes into Sadie. Set and Nephthys go into other hosts that would spoil the story. Set tries to wreak havoc over North America by creating a storm like the one that created the Sahara Desert. Once the two learn to harness the power of the god inside of them, they become very powerful and they can change the way that history go: with Set always losing and then coming back out and fighting Horus and Iris. Instead,Carter and Sadie's mother started to change history so that they could actually defeat Apophis, the main god of chaos and rival of Ra, and return Ma'at to balance.
Carter, who travels around the world with his father, and his sister Sadie, who lives with her grandparents in England, are from the same blood but don’t look very similar. Carter looks more like his father than Sadie, and Sadie, more like her mother than Carter making an early impression on other characters. Their mom, Ruby, has died but still plays a powerful role in the story. Carter and Sadie are the children of a famous Egyptologist, Julius, and his wife, Ruby, an architect. Carter and Sadie are blood of the Pharaohs and are some of the strongest offspring of the pharaohs in millennia. When they and their father go to the British Museum, their father blows up the Rosetta Stone and unleashes five of the most powerful Egyptian gods, Horus, Iris, Nephthys, Osiris, and Set. Carter describes Sadie by saying,"You would never believe she's my sister. First of all, she'd been living in England so long, she has a British accent. Second, she takes after our mom, who was white, so Sadie's skin is much lighter than mine. She has straight caramel-colored hair, not exactly blonde but not brown, which she usually dyes with streaks of bright colors. That day it red streaks down the left side. Her eyes are blue... just like our mom's. She's only twelve, but she's exactly as tall as me, which is really annoying"(p.7). This physical description of Sadie helps the reader put an image and sound into their head to help visualize what they were saying and how they said it. Carter, described by Sadie, leaves this impression: "Carter looked awful - I mean even worse than usual. Honestly, the boy had never even been in a proper school, and he dressed like a junior professor, with his khaki trousers and a button-down shirt and loafers. He's not bad-looking, I suppose. He's reasonably tall and fit and his hair isn't hopeless. He's got Dad's eyes, and my mates, Liz and Emma, have even told me from his picture that he's hot," (p. 39) this example shows how Sadie looks at Carter and how he looks physically. The third, and one of the most important characters, is their mother, Ruby. She is never physically in the story; however, she plays a very important part in how it plays out. "You have the best chance at relearning the old ways, and healing the breach between magicians and gods. Your mother began the stirring. I [Sadie's and Carter's Dad, Julius] unleashed the gods from the Rosetta Stone. But it will be your job to restore Ma'at."(p. 472) this is how Ruby set the stage for her children to restore the balance and harmony of Chaos and Order. Ma'at. She unleashes Bast, the cat goddess that protects Sadie, who is given as a going-away gift from Julius to Sadie. These characters all played essential parts in the plot.
Family unity and Trust are thoughts carried through the book.An example of family is repeated multiple times saying that Sadie and Carter "have the strongest blood of any Kane in three thousand years." This was because the Kane and Faust families, both of direct decent of the pharaohs, were combined together through Julius Kane and Ruby Faust into their children. Trust was a big idea in this book because they had to trust their uncle Amos, whom they have never seen before, Desjardins, Head of the House, and Zia, a girl who shows Carter and Sadie around the House and protects them.
Per Ankh: House of Life "'That's it!' Sadie exclaimed. 'Per Ankh'"
Curator: A manager of a museum. "They locked me in the curator's office forages."
Anthropologist: A person who studies human origin. "Mom was an anthropologist looking for ancient DNA." (p. 12)
Indignant: The feeling of distaste towards something. “If coats could look indignant, this one did." (p. 426)
Divine: godlike or of a god "You're trying to fight Set with divine magic." (p.375)
This picture shows the five gods, Horus, the manifestation of the Pharaoh, Isis, the goddess of magic and nature, Set, the god of Chaos, Nephthys, the god of rivers, and Osiris, god of the underworld, revolving around Ra, the sun god. They are also in the Rosetta Stone, which is where Julius Kane released them from in the British Museum. He was only supposed to release Osiris,but all, with the exception of Ra, escaped from, into bodies or other significant relics. Horus is shown as the Eye of Horus in the top left part of the Rosetta Stone. Isis is the angel-like symbol in the top right, Set is the storm cloud in the right of the stone, Nephthys is the flowing river in the lower part of the circle of gods, and Osiris is depicted as the spine of Osiris at the very left of the stone. Ra is the Eye in the sun in the center of all the other gods. These symbols are significant in this book because they resemble the plot by signifying the Egyptian gods' part of the story and the history of Egyptian belief.
This book reminds me of the book "Flipped”,where the characters would tell the story from their own point of view, which is what Rick Riordan does here except that this was more disguised as a voice recording. In the book "Flipped", theyexchange storytelling except it’s written, not so much told. As far as story line goes, the series and books most like "The Red Pyramid" are other books written by Rick Riordan,like the "Heroes of Olympus" and "Percy Jackson". These are books about the Greek gods and how chosen children like Percy Jackson or Carter and Sadie Kane are sent on a mission to save their father or save the world. Overall, they are just retold in different settings with different settings.
link to Goodreads review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/428793032